Unit 6.4- the "New south"
Place in Alabama that developed into one of the nations leading steel producers.
Where is Birmingham?
Cyrus W. Fields invention that made it possible to send messages the seas in minutes.
What is the Transatlantic cable?
The Nations first big business?
What is rail roads?
Famously argued the "iron law of wages"
Who is David Ricardo?
People came from southern and Eastern Europe
Who were the new immigrants?
Southern Vision of a the south with a self sufficient economy built on modern capitalist values, Industrial growth, modernized transportation and improved race relations.
What is the "New South"
Alexander Graham Bell's invention.
What is the telephone?
Economic expression which meant to reject government regulations of business or let things be.
What is "laissez-faire"?
Percent of children were employed outside of their home in 1870
What is 12 percent?
People came from northern and western Europe
Who were the Old immigrants?
African American scientist that played a role in shifting southern agriculture to a more diversified base.
Who is George Washington Carver?
Massive suspension bridge in New York that made long commutes between areas available.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
Company that demonstrates a market to where it has no competition.
What is a Monopoly?
A second nation labor union that began in 1869
What was the Knights of Labor?
Immigrant groups created a place to stay where each group could maintain its own culture
What were Ethnic Neighborhoods
Laws required racial segregation in most public amenities except for streets and most stores.
What we're Jim Crow laws?
Inventor that had more than 400 pattens and also responsible for inventing an air break for rail roads.
Who is George Westinghouse?
An organization or board that manages the assets of other companies.
What is a trust?
The act of closing a factory to break a labor movement before it could get organized
What is a Lockout?
In 1882 ended the immigration of people from China
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Believed that black and white southerners shared a responsibility for making their region prosper.
What is the Atlanta Compromise?
Type of economy that was promoted through advertisements and new marketing techniques.
What is consumer economy?
Process through which one company takes control of all stages of making a product.
What is a Vertical Integration?
A roster that included the names of pro-union workers that employers circulated so that these people could not find work
What was the Blacklist?
Overcrowding and joblessness in European cities